Online Mindfulness Therapy for PTSD

Online Mindfulness Therapy for PTSD

Talk to a Psychotherapist Online by Skype for highly effective online therapy for the treatment of PTSD and emotional trauma. 

Learn how to process traumatic memories and promote healing, whether from childhood trauma, abusive relationships, disaster or conflict-based trauma through Mindfulness Therapy.

Trauma becomes PTSD when we develop unconscious patterns of habitual reactivity based on aversion, distraction and suppression.

This reactivity inhibits healing and prolongs emotional trauma.

The way to recover from trauma is to stop feeding this habitual reactivity. This reactivity is the problem that prevents recovery more than the historical trauma itself.

The purpose of Mindfulness Therapy is to uncover and disengage from this habitual reactivity and resume the natural process of innate healing.

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Mindfulness Meditation Therapy is an excellent choice for most people because it works on healing the underlying cause of your anxiety or depression rather than just treating symptoms. The focus is on teaching you practical tools and methods between sessions. This is why most people experience significant results very much faster than the usual counseling.

Please feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about online therapy via Skype with me. 

Everyone that I have worked with really enjoys the mindfulness approach that I teach for healing emotional suffering…

"I found Dr. Strong’s site via the internet and it has helped me incredibly. He has provided me with mindfulness tips and tools that are practical and have given me the confidence I needed to start driving on the highway."

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Learn how to apply mindfulness for breaking free from reactive identification with thoughts, emotional reactions and memories.

Welcome! My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional mindfulness therapist and I offer mindfulness therapy online. If you're interested in mindfulness for trauma and for post-traumatic stress disorder then please go to my website and learn more about mindfulness therapy for recovery from trauma and PTSD, and email me to learn more, to ask any questions you may have, and also to schedule the Skype therapy session with me for PTSD or trauma recovery. 

So during these online therapy sessions I'll be teaching you how to apply mindfulness and mindfulness meditation for aiding your recovery from emotional trauma or PTSD. There are two basic principles that we developed during these online mindfulness therapy sessions for PTSD. The first is the incredibly needed skill of breaking free from the habit of reactive identification with your thoughts and with your own emotional reactions. 

This is by far the biggest problem that creates emotional suffering. So, when thoughts or emotional reactions arise our tendency is to become completely identified with them. And so we become captivated by our thoughts and our memories. We become prisoners of all thoughts and our memories and we become basically controlled by them when we become identified with them. 

So mindfulness training is all about learning how to change the relationship with your thoughts and traumatic memories and emotional reactions so that you do not become identified with them, so that you can see these mental objects as the Observer, the True Self that can see the contents of mind without becoming prisoners of the content of the mind. 

So that's the first most important mindfulness training is learning how to develop what we call "independence" from our mind, from the thoughts, from the memories, from the emotions that arise in the mind. 

The second part of the trauma recovery will involve working with the imagery of the trauma itself. Working with the imagery, changing the imagery, so that it does not cause the emotional trauma, the emotional reaction. It's very easy to do this when we start to develop a conscious, mindful relationship with our trauma. If we continue to react to it, we can't see what's there and if we don't see the nature of that imagery then we can change it. we become a prisoner of it. 

But, once you start to uncover the imagery and see how it actually works you can change the structure of that imagery. One simple technique is to make the imagery smaller, because the imagery of a trauma is generally very large and it has to be large in order to create the emotional trauma. If you can make the image smaller then you will reduce the ability of that memory to produce emotional trauma. 

There are many other things we can do as well with mindfulness, but these are two areas: we work on changing your relationship to your trauma and also changing the imagery itself that is responsible for producing the emotional reactions associated with the trauma. 

If you'd like to learn more about mindfulness for trauma and PTSD recovery, then please go to my website and e-mail me to schedule a Skype therapy session. 

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Mindfulness-based Image Reprocessing for Traumatic Memories in PTSD

Welcome. My name is Peter Strong and I'm a professional psychotherapist specializing in Mindfulness Therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression and also to help with PTSD. 

The particular method that I've developed over the years and found to be extremely effective for helping people recover from emotional or psychological trauma is called Mindfulness-based Imagery Reprocessing. 

So this is part of Mindfulness Therapy. What is mindfulness? First of all, well mindfulness simply refers to a form of conscious awareness, which is not reactive. So we're able to be fully present with whatever we're focusing on without reacting either emotionally or cognitively or judging events or even labeling the object. We don't talk about it. We simply observe it with full conscious presence. So that's a characteristic of mindfulness and it is extremely important for many things, but particularly for recovery from emotional suffering, including emotional trauma and PTSD. 

So when we apply mindfulness to emotional trauma, we are actually talking about developing this quality of full conscious awareness of our traumatic memories and particularly the imagery of those memory memories, the pictures that we form in our mind that generates the emotional trauma that can go on many years after the event. 

So the primary cause of emotional suffering is to be found in that imagery itself, and the imagery has certain properties, which cause it to trigger emotional pain. For example, its size. Intense emotional experiences tend to be large in size. That's how we see them in the mind. Emotional experiences that have a very low intensity that don't affect us typically are very small in size. 

The position of the image is also very important. So it make sense when you think about how we usually talk about emotional experience as being overpowering or overwhelming. This kind of language is referring to the emotion and its position, how we see that in the mind. 

So typically, again, overwhelming emotions such as emotional trauma are seen at a high position in our psychological field of vision, how we see things internally. They tend to be at a high level above us. That's why we use language like "we feel overwhelmed." 

Literally, the image is over us. And, typically, when an emotion is not overwhelming, when it's neutral or has little effect on us, then the imagery will reflect that and typically that imagery will be at a lower level in our psychological field. So when we are feeling very good and happy, in a state of emotional wellbeing, typically we might say, "I feel on top of things now. I feel on top of the world." This language is a clue that points to the internal psychological imagery of the emotion. 

Other factors we look at are the color of the image. So again, intense traumatic images typically are seen in great detail, great color is one of those features of the details of the imagery, the color. And when memories become faded that color becomes a lot more muted, less intense in color. So color is another feature that is part of the structure of traumatic imagery. The color is a factor that creates the emotional trauma. 

Other factors which may include how close the image is, that is related to its size. So typically intense images are very close in our visual field and less intense memories tend to be further away in our internal psychological field of vision.

So if it were very large we would want to try and reprocess that imagery and make it very small. We see it at a high level in our visual field we might want to try and move it to a lower level. If it's too close we might want to move it further away. So we can effectively change the imagery of our memories and change them in a way that leads to the resolution of that emotional pain.

So if you're interested in learning more about how to work with your emotional trauma or other traumatic memories that you're struggling with, including intrusive memories, then please contact me and tell me more about your particular condition your own needs. And then I will explain to you more about how we can work with that using mindfulness. And when you feel ready we can schedule a therapy session via Skype. 

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